Adafruit Circuit Playground Express Makecode

By simply dragging and dropping elemental code blocks you can create circuit playground express software in no time and even test it out with the virtual circuit playground express simulator built into the page.

Adafruit circuit playground express makecode.

With the programming area blank click the pink download button in your project window. Announcing microsoft makecode for circuit playground express. Lucky you microsoft and adafruit have teamed up to bring you makecode for adafruit circuit playground express and now it s here in the windows app store. Once you ve got the hang of makecode you can then take a look at circuitpython or.

Easily respond to button clicks shake gestures and more. Once you have chrome and the makecode beta url open you will need to download a blank program to the circuit playground express. Posted may 19th 2017. Drag and drop blocks or type javascript makecode let s you go back and forth between the two.

Makecode currently supports the adafruit circuit playground express. Adafruit industries unique fun diy electronics and kits circuit playground express id. Be sure you ve gone through the tutorial here on the basics of makecode for circuit playground express. A blocks javascript code editor for the adafruit circuit playground express.

Arduino ide or direct arm gcc programming if this is your very first time programming or coding we suggest starting with makecode it is the super fast to get started not just with circuit playground express but coding in general. All you need is a windows computer and a circuit playground express. Once you ve loaded the editor it stays cached in your browser. Not only did we pack even more sensors in we also made it even easier to program start your journey with microsoft.

The microsoft makecode team is proud to announce a great partnership with our good friends over at adafruit industries over the last several months we have been working together on a new educational physical computing experience using microsoft makecode with a new version of the circuit playground board.